Re: Selection changes in revno 100822

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
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> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:43:28 +0900
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> Stefan Monnier writes:
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>  > >> >> > Here is a summary of the current scheme:
>  > >> >> [...]
>  > >> >> >   5. mouse-2 yanks primary.
>  > >> >> Question: how do I yank the primary from the keyboard?
>  > >> >> I used to do that with C-y very happily.
>  > >> > Gotta tinker with x-select-enable-primary, I think.
>  > >> We need a better answer.
>  > > I'm not sure what to make of this remark.
>  > That I think it needs to be possible to do it from the keyboard,
>  > even with the default settings.
> 
> If that's what you want, how about adding "copy text from primary and
> paste it" functionality to yank itself?

`yank' already supports such a functionality (that's how
`mouse-yank-at-click' works).  But it is currently triggered only when
`yank' is called from a mouse click.  What is needed is a way to do
that e.g. with some special value of a prefix arg.